against him. But the headmen learned what was to come, and they

prevailed upon a wife of my father, a woman of their own blood, to

poison him. So she poisoned him in the night and in the morning it was

told me that my father lay sick and summoned me, and I went to him. In

his hut I found him, and he was writhing with pain.

"'What is it, my father?' I said. 'Who has done this evil?'

"'It is this, my son,' he gasped, 'that I am poisoned, and she stands

yonder who has done the deed.' And he pointed to the woman, who stood